Welcome

Welcome to the POZ/AIDSmeds Community Forums, a round-the-clock discussion area for people with HIV/AIDS, their friends/family/caregivers, and
others concerned about HIV/AIDS. Click on the links below to browse our various forums; scroll down for a glance at the most recent posts; or join in the
conversation yourself by registering on the left side of this page.

Privacy Warning: Please realize that these forums are open to all, and are fully searchable via Google and other search engines. If you are HIV positive
and disclose this in our forums, then it is almost the same thing as telling the whole world (or at least the World Wide Web). If this concerns you, then do not use a
username or avatar that are self-identifying in any way. We do not allow the deletion of anything you post in these forums, so think before you post.

The information shared in these forums, by moderators and members, is designed to complement, not replace, the relationship between an individual and his/her own
physician.

All members of these forums are, by default, not considered to be licensed medical providers. If otherwise, users must clearly define themselves as such.

Forums members must behave at all times with respect and honesty. Posting guidelines, including time-out and banning policies, have been established by the moderators
of these forums. Click here for “Am I Infected?” posting guidelines. Click here for posting guidelines pertaining to all other POZ/AIDSmeds community forums.

We ask all forums members to provide references for health/medical/scientific information they provide, when it is not a personal experience being discussed. Please
provide hyperlinks with full URLs or full citations of published works not available via the Internet. Additionally, all forums members must post information which are
true and correct to their knowledge.

Author
Topic: Wouldn't it be funny if (Read 7058 times)

Wouldn't it be funny or better yet SAD if the world came to an end, a big rock hit the earth in the next few years and those of us with HIV and other illnesses are constantly worried about dying soon. Wouldn't sobbing and worrying be such a waste of time.

Myself, I just look at the fact that for the most part I feel good and don't want to waste it with worry. I'll save any sadness for when I come to that bridge over troubled waters!

I won't even let the nagging pain in my knee that keeps me awake most nights get me down. As long as I am putting on weight and able to eat... I am happy as hell!

Thomas

PS.. If a rock starts coming to earth I nominate AC/KC and I to fly up there in F-14s and shoot that sucker with nukes. Of course I'll be Will Smith's character and he can be the character that flies into it. KC, sorry homie you will be missed

There was some talk that such an event might actually happen on Friday, May 13, 2029 (yes, a ways into the future). But now that has been discounted although there is a slight chance that this asteroid could pass through a "keyhole" and end up in the same orbit with us and smash into us 6 years after that.

I am a firm believer in that tomorrow is promised to no man, so I try to make the most of it, the good with the bad. Even though sometimes I feel that I've been given the shitty end of the deal a few times. So, I just put on my shit kickers and wade through the mess. I know whenever I cross over to the other side, I'm calling in some favors.

To be quite honest, I am not worrying about dying soon. If I spent all my time thinking about dying, I wouldn't be living very much. When It happens it will happen. Death is the only certainty in life, enjoy each day the best you can. It could be a car wreck that does me in...

If a rock was heading to Earth, I would start charging up the credit cards...

LIFE is not a race to the grave with the intention of arriving safelyin a pretty and well-preserved body, but, rather to skid in broadside,thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming--WOW! WHAT ARIDE!!!

Well, I'm still planning on being here in 2029... I know we aren't promised anything... but I'm not about to give up. And with that latest study saying that HIV+ people on HAART have well over 30 years projected life expectancy things continue to look more and more promising.

dtwpuck,You should get at least 6 years in retirement... now they say it won't hit in 2029, the earliest possible is six years later... :-)

Of course, I'd say those of us here would have about as good of a chance of doing something about it as our government does. If they tried to fix it we might as well figure that it would get really screwed up.

I'm with you dtw... but I've always been a fan of good science fiction. And my definition of good science fiction is science fiction that has some basis in plausability. An asteroid hitting earth is plausable and has happened in the past. Now, disaster movies in general I can pass on. But disaster movies that have a bit of potential truth in them... that's a different story. I think they make us think.

So skeebo, you going alone to the moon or are you going to set up a charter and let some of us in on it too?

I really don't obsess over death. I do kind of not relish the parts that lead up to it if it's going to be messy... I just hope there's a lot of morphine so at least I'm really high. Oh, and a party... I'd like balloons and loud dance music in my hospital room, please. And 4 Dominican boys in g-strings. And expensive Diptyque candles.

Yep. Plus, I always hear statistical evidence that people tend to, um...mingle quite a bit more in the wake of crisis (like post 9/11 and such). Can you imagine? I saw movie about this recently: Last Night. Had that Sandra Oh gal from Grey's Anatomy in it.

it'd be kind of annoying... there are too many things i want to do... but i don't worry about big rocks destroying the planet, not even if i'm going to die with aids, or anything else... i just worry about having enough time to do everything i want...

You could be with me, of course, but there is almost no way that I would be inside in the earth's final hours. I would be out in the air, dunking my head under water, looking up at the sky...hell, I'd probably hug trees and the whole deal. That's not to say that I wouldn't engage in some 'dark room behavior'. I'd just probably do it out in the open somewhere.

"How can you kill time without injuring eternity?" Thoreau. My inspirational quote for the night.

And now I'm off to flirt with straight writer-boys and try to convince them that homosex with me is what they should be doing with their lives. It'll cure them of their affected angst.

Logged

Her finely-touched spirit had still its fine issues, though they were not widely visible. Her full nature, like that river of which Cyrus broke the strength, spent itself in channels which had no great name on the earth. But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.